21-500 Biała Podlaska
ul. Kraszewskiego 1
tel. 083 3433812
e-mail kraszak@bialapodl.pl
The Founder of the Bialska Academy
parish priest Krzysztof Wilski-Ciborowicz
| Date |
Events |
| 1628, Dec 12 | Parish priest Krzysztof Wilski-Ciborowicz created a foundation act of the Bialska Academy (Fundatio Vilsciana) defining the organizational principles of the school, on which he spent his whole fortune; |
| 1628 | Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł donated the building for the purposes of the school which is the location of I Liceum Ogólnokształcącego im. J.I. Kraszewskiego until these days ; |
| 1630/31 | The Bialska Academy starts its activity as a branch of the Krakow Academy together with Adam Roszczewicz, the first headmaster of the New branch, and professors Mikołaj Sulikowski and Baltazar Jan Przyłuski; |
| 1700 | The first play at the school staging a historical performance dedicated to Mikołaj Radziwiłł; |
| 1773 | Professor Mikołaj Dziedziczki becomes the headmaster of the school; |
| 1777 | As a result of a reform of the National Education Board the academic branch ceases functioning the way it used to and becomes a subordinate of the reformed Lithuanian Main School; this severs the Academy's 150-year-long link to the University of Cracow; upon taking control over the Academy does not subsidiate it materially, because officially its wealth is guaranteed by its founder's fund; |
| 1781 | By the decision of NEB, the academic branch becomes a subordinate of the rector of the faculty school in Brest as a subfaculty school with about 200 students; |
| 1795 | Mikołaj Jan Kanty Dziedziczki died, the pro-vice chancellor of the school, who worked in Biała Podlaska for 34 years; |
| 1795 | The Academy of Biala dependency on the Lithuanian Main School stops as a result of the third invasion (Vilnius is taken over by Russia) ; |
| 1801, Jul 23 | The academic school is transformed into an Austrian gymnasium as a result of a decree issued by the National Galician Chancellery - this lasts until 1805; it's a time of Germanization, against which the school stands firmly. At this time the school library has only a few dozens of books; |
| 1809 | The Great Principality of Warsaw Public Education Chamber transforms the school into a department school; |
| 1815 | The Government Board of Religion and Public Enlightenment gives the school in Biala the status of a faculty school; |
| 1830-31 | During the November Uprising the school was closed and converted into a hospital by the Russian headquarters; |
| 1822 - 1826 | Józef Ignacy Kraszewski becomes a student of the school |
| 1833 | The school is changed into a 4-year district school with a philology-oriented classes; |
| 1837 | The school is changed into a school with a philology-oriented classes; |
| 1862 | The change of the school in Biała Podlaska into a county pedagogy school, so called Wielopolskis Reform ; |
| 1862 | The participation in the January Uprising by the school students priest Stanisław Brzóska and Roman Rogiński and their teacher Baltazar Wolanin; |
| 1865 | The change of the school into a Russian five-year Pro-gimnazjum for the Greek Uniate people with Russian as the language of lectures ; |
| 1866 | The reorganization of the school into a seven-year gimnazjum and the creation of a special school, that is a teacher's seminary for the Greek Uniate people; |
| 1873 | The subject of the Polish language was removed from Gimnazjum, the introduction of a complete prohibition of the Polish language usage in and out of the school; |
| 1902 | The fight for the Polish school conducted by students, their familie and teachers resulted in an allowance to teach the Roman-Catholic religion in the Polish language; |
| 1905 | A school strike to fight for the Polish school and the boycott of government schools ; |
| 1916, Sep 1 | The opening of a four-year coeducational secondary school im. J.I.. Kraszewskiego in a rented private place; |
| 1919, Jan 10 | The resumption of the education in the Polish Gimnazjum in the previous building of the Podlaska Academy ; |
| 1919, Sep 1 | The Ceremony of the nationalization of the school and the division of Gimnazjum im. J.I. Kraszewskiego into Female Gimnazjum im. E. Plater and Male Gimnazjum im. J.I. Kraszewskiego; | 1922, Sep 21-22 | The First Graduates' Reunion ; |
| 1923-1933 | Dr Wacław Natowski who manager the school died in 1969 in Jarosław; the library book collection includes 2,134 volumes; |
| 1928 | The Second Graduates' Reunion in the 300th anniversary of the school's foundation; |
| 1933 | Stanisław Damrosz becomes the headmaster of the school; |
| 1935/37 | The first students began their education in I LO im. J.I. Kraszewskiego; |
| 1938/39 | The library book collection includes 8,144 volumes; |
| 1939, Sep 26 | The beginning of the school year lasting until Nov 16; at the time the whole possessions of the school were plundered firstly by the Russians, and then by the Germans, converting the school building into the military police headquarters; |
| 1940, Jun 24 | 21 teachers of Biała Podlaska were arrested; |
| 1944, Sep 1 | The beginning of the New school year with Stanisław Damrosz as the headmaster; |
| 1949, Mar 20 | The Polish Scouting Association stopped their activity in the school; |
| 1968 | The Fourth Graduates' Reunion; |
| 1968 | The introduction of co-education, the end of the division into a male I LO im. J.I. Kraszewskiego and a female II LO im. E. Plater; |
| 1975, Aug 16 | Jerzy Flisiński took the chair of the school's headmaster ; |
| 1978 | The Fifth Graduates' Reunion in the 350th anniversary of the school's foundation; |
| 1979 | The New school building with the gym is ready to be used, the school becomes a UNESCO Associated School; |
| 1980 | The indoor swimming pool is going to be built; |
| 1982 | Michał Bitner becomes the headmaster; |
| 1983, Mar 18 | The Patron's Day is organised for the first time in the history of the school; |
| 1985 | Waldemar Godlewski took the chair of the school's headmaster; |
| 1988 | The celebrations of the 360th anniversary of the school's foundation together with the Sixth Graduates' Reunion; the school is honoured with the Order of Polonia Restituta, the commemorative plaque to revere the 100th anniversary of the Patron's death was unveiled; |
| 1991 | The swimming pool and the fields are ready to be used; |
| 1992, Dec | The foundation named after J.I. Kraszewski starts its activity; |
| 1993,19 Mar | The commemorative plaque to revere the memory of the teachers and students killed during the Second Word War was unveiled; |
| 1998 | The Seventh Graduates' Reunion; |
| 1999 | Wojciech Leszczyński becomes the headmaster; |
| 2000 | New modern computer laboratories are ready to be used. The creation of an Internet website to promote the school; |
| 2001 | The commemorative plaque to revere the memory of Bolesław Jedliczko, the creator of the foundation named after J.I. Kraszewski, was unveiled; |
| 2002 | The first School's Open Days are organized in the school; | 2008 | Przemysław Olesiejuk becomes the headmaster; |
